Chapter 57

In less than two minutes, the maid came back together with mommy following her behind. "Dalia? What's wrong with you? Why are you on the floor?" Mommy asked her and Dalia pointed at her lower abdomen. "Is it your period again?" Mommy asked and she nodded. Mommy looked around the room, she spotted the heating pad on the side drawer and a pack of pain killers beside it. Mommy stood up and rushed out of the room. The maid knelt down and helped her up to her bed. She came back together with daddy. "Sorry dear. The doctor would be on his way now," he soothed and she nodded her head, eyes closed. They stayed with her till the doctor arrived. She quickly opened her eyes when she heard his voice. He moved closer to her, "sorry, how are you feeling now?" He asked her and she nodded before she closed her eyes again. She needn't to see his face, not after he had just told her he loved her barely a week ago. "Have you taken any pain killer? Or used heating pad?" He inquired. She slowly pointed at it seated on her side drawer. He looked at daddy and mommy staring at them. "She needs injection because the pain isn't responding to the pain killer or the heating pad she used." He rise to his feet as he walked out of the room together with daddy. Yusuf left to buy the preferred injection for her while daddy went back to the room. She grimaced in pain again and curled up like a ball. Mommy felt sorry for the girl. "She's really in pain. That's how it does to her every month," she mouthed looking at daddy. "She will be fine in sha Allah, we would find a permanent cure for it, if possible." Mommy slightly nodded her head. She stood up and left the room before she came back with a plate of spaghetti and urged her to eat before he came back. In less than twenty minutes, he gave her the injection and waited to see how she'd react to it. Luckily, after a few moments, she fell asleep. He excused himself and went to daddy's living room like he asked him to after he was done with the injection. "Yusuf, is there any permanent cure for this?" Daddy asked him, sadness written all over his face. Yusuf smiled a little before he started explaining everything to daddy. "I don't think so daddy but it can be controlled. And I have observed that her pain is severe, it doesn't even respond to pills because the one she had taken is one of the best for easing period pain. I will write down the things she has to do to avoid the severe pain before her period and what she should do when it starts, surely it will help in sha Allah." Daddy stared at yusuf as if to get more answers, then he turned away. "My daughter, Amira experienced this before, she even faints sometimes. When we took her to the hospital, the doctor told me the pain might reduce or even stop when she has a sexual intercourse or she gives birth." Yusuf smiled and nodded. "I didn't think that would be an option for her that's why I didn't bring it up, but it is true." Daddy nodded his head as he smiled. Yusuf wrote down the precautions and everything she'd need before he left the house. "You don't know if she has someone interested in her?" Daddy asked her the moment they were in their room. "I don't think so, but maybe Yusuf. Because he came here twice to see her, he even bought gifts for her." Daddy gave her a perplexed look. "Yes, alhaji, the yusuf that just left the house an hour ago." He nodded his head as he smiled. "But he has never told me something about it." She shrugged her shoulders, "well maybe he is waiting for the right time or she hasn't accepted him yet, we should wait and see." "Well I can't just allow this to continue, if he's interested in her, then it's better he asks for permission." Mommy shrugged her shoulders again as she stood up from the bed to go check up on dalia again. Two weeks later, dalia was up on her feet and well again. Yusuf called her a couple of times but only to check up on her. He had came twice to the house to check up on her also. He never spoke about his feelings for her again. He believed the time is yet to come but it will surely come. She arranged the last thing on the table which was the plates before she went back to the kitchen and started cleaning the mess she had made. She hadn't started with the main cleaning but she was already tired from cooking breakfast for them. He walked downstairs as he wondered where the perplexing aroma was coming from. He glanced at the time from his phone. It was was barely eleven in the morning. Amira cooked for them? He asked himself. That cannot be, he laughed it off. He continued walking downstairs and headed to the dining room. There were warmers arranged on the table. He didn't open it, instead, he walked into the kitchen. "Amira you cooked...." He paused when he saw the little figure mopping the tiles. "Dalia?" He asked astonished. "What are you doing here on a Friday and this early?" He asked her. "Aunty amira called me to clean the house today since we're still on mid semester break. Good morning." She squatted a bit as she smiled at him. "When did you come back from Kuje?" He questioned, folding his hand on his chest while he rested his back on the fridge. "I came back last night," she retorted and returned her gaze to the floor, and continued mopping. The kitchen door swung open and Amira appeared fully decked out and ready to head out.